Why YSK: Popcorn fans often want a buttery flavor, but plain butter is a bad choice for popping popcorn in a pot, because the proteins and sugars smoke and burn around the same temperature where it’s hot enough to pop the kernels.

Ghee, or Indian-style clarified butter, is butter that’s been simmered and the milk solids (proteins and sugars) skimmed off. This leaves a clear yellow oil that doesn’t smoke when it’s heated and doesn’t go rancid quickly, but has a distinct toasty butter flavor.

Vegetable oil is either flavorless or faintly bitter, and some high-temperature vegetable oils tend to start polymerizing (i.e. becoming plastic) when heated in small amounts. This is also not good for popcorn.

Good-quality popcorn popped in ghee reliably produces lots of “butterfly” popcorn with few unpopped “duds” and no scorched kernels or batches ruined by smoke.

Try it! I’m sure not going back to canola oil.

  • meat_popsicle
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    11 year ago

    Cows can be raped?

    Do we send cow rapists to cow jail? If a cow is in a field with a bull, do we arrest the bull pre- or post- mount?

    • NotAPenguin
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      1 year ago

      Come the fuck on buddy, obviously they are talking about humans forcefully impregnating cows to force them to produce milk.

      Humans have the capability to understand the consequences of our actions, other animals don’t.

      • @Doodoocaca
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        11 year ago

        By the way you’re talking here I can tell you have no idea what you’re talking about. Have you ever seen a cow be inseminated? Nothing about it is forceful. They don’t give a flying fuck. They stand there and eat while a guy artificially inseminates them and they don’t react at all. They do not care.